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Meanwhile in space, the Imperial warships were aided by the sudden arrival of the [[Dark Angels]] warship ''[[Dark Sovereign]]'', which swept aside the traitor system orbital stations and destroyed much of the supply fleet of macro-transports above Xana I. The ''Dark Sovreign'' then launched Dark Angels and [[Shattered Legions]] warriors at targets across the Xana System.{{fn|1a}}
Enraged at the prospect of the Ordinatus engines being seized by another force, Haar ripped Archmagos Raijan's head and confronted 'Noon', who revealed himself as an agent of [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador]], whose ultimate goal was to recover weapons for the defence of [[Terra]] from a secret weapons facility under the prison-[[forge]] of [[Xana-Tisiphone]]. Haar agreed to serve the Sigillite for a chance to truly hurt the Warmaster, killing members of his own warband who disagreed. [[Erud Vahn]] disabled the collars on the prisoners used in the 'false war', allowing them to fight back against their captors.{{fn|2}} The surviving members of Haar's honour guard captured the Ordinatus Ulator and ransacked Xana-Tisiphone as the remainder of the Blackshield company aboard the ''Cicatrice Tyrannis'' commenced a ground assault.{{fn|1a}} In one of the most shocking and mysterious events of the battle, traitor storage containers holding the bodies of loyalists killed at the [[Drop Site Massacre]] were hit by an unknown pulse signal. As if activated, the bodies of the deceased loyalist marines became reanimated and burst from their containers, slaughtering all traitors in their path until they were themselves killed.{{Fn|1a}}
The Dark Angels and Shattered Legions fought through waves of Dark Mechanicus [[Battle Automata]] and [[Adsecularis]] before destroying much of the forge complexes of Xana II. Haar's Blackshields withdrew aboard the ''Cicatrice Tyrannis'' after a counter attack of advanced and unfamiliar patterns of [[Battle-Automata]] emerged from the Sheaol penitentiary and destroyed the Ordinatus Ulator ''Nepothax'' in an attempt to recapture it.{{fn|1a}}
